Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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Promoting social cohesion by ensuring that communities are pleasant places to live and work is a key priority.
Key issues
You may identify with some of the following imperatives:
- meeting the target of building 3 million new homes by 2020;
- streamlining the national and local planning process;
- identifying and decontaminating appropriate brown-field sites;
- providing adequate civic infrastructure – schools, healthcare, local jobs, civic amenities – to breathe life into new and expanding suburbs, towns and villages; and
- coordinating strategy effectively between a range of national, regional and local agencies, as well as private sector partners.
Geographic information can address many of these by providing:
- detailed mapping and high-resolution imagery of development sites; and
- a national address referencing framework that links disparate location-related datasets
Case studies
Location data for the Thames Gateway
Work towards a successful regeneration of the Thames Gateway is underpinned by Ordnance Survey information.
Our offering
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
Our flagship large-scale, polygonised and seamless topographic database product, it offers clear and customisable on-screen mapping, plus the facility to overlay your own data, making it ideal for detailed planning.
The most complete, comprehensive, national spatial address dataset for the whole of Great Britain, it is ideal as a means of providing a geographical context to other datasets, enabling you to identify trends and deprivation blackspots quickly.
A maintained dataset of high-quality aerial photography, it provides a detailed aerial map of Great Britain, ideal for assessing risks associated with, for example, access to particular buildings.
Interested? Please get in touch
We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us or phone us on 08456 05 05 05 and we'll get suggest how to take this forward.